Such Scandalous Language!
By Paisley Hibou
QuailBellMagazine.com
QuailBellMagazine.com
All those images of ribbon and lace have probably convinced you that the Victorians cared more about modesty, propriety, and all that other boring stuff than they did good ol' sensuality. Well, that's not as spot on as you think. Pick up a little Rossetti and your perception might change. Victorians may have been more naïve about sex than today's parties, but they still had it. (Otherwise, you wouldn't be here.) They talked about it, too.
By Christine Stoddard
The difference between us and them is that the Victorians treasured the art of the conceal while we prefer the art of the reveal. Why else would Victoria's Secret posters be such mega boob fests? See, take that word: “boob.” That's our word for breast. It's not clinical; it's slang—and Victorians were not without their vulgar diction, either.
Go ahead, be ironic. Latch onto a few of these words and phrases to “update” your sexy time vocabulary. You might just outcool your way to a lifetime cover charge waiver at a steampunk bar.
Go ahead, be ironic. Latch onto a few of these words and phrases to “update” your sexy time vocabulary. You might just outcool your way to a lifetime cover charge waiver at a steampunk bar.
Abbess: Brothel madam
Agony of Bliss: orgasm
Ape Leader: An old maid
Arbor Vitae: Penis
Back Avenue: Buttocks
Ballocks: Testicles
Balsamic Injection: Ejaculation
Blind Cupid: Buttocks
Bubbies: Breasts
Buck's Face: A cuckold
Bunter: The lowest of prostitutes—half beggar, half whore
Buttered Bun: A man getting “sloppy seconds”
Cash Carrier: Pimp
Chicken-breasted: Flat-chested
Cloven Inlet: Lady bits
Cock Lane: Lady bits
Critical Period: Orgasm
Cunny: Lady bits
Diddeys: Breasts
Dollymop: A part-time prostitute
Downy spring-moss: Bush
Dugs: Breasts
Engagement: Getting it on
Fairest Flower: Lady bits
Fetching mettle: Masturbating
Flap Dragon: Clap
Fleshy Orbs: Buttocks
Flood of bliss: Orgasm
Gal-Boy: A gay guy
Gay: Mandrake
Gaying Instrument: Penis
Giblets: Livin' in sin
Give a green gown: To get it on
Hedge Whore: A whore who gets it on in the hedges
Joining giblets: Getting it on
Knapped: Pregnant
Knocking: Getting it on
Lobcock: A flaccid penis
Madge: Lady bits
Manuals of Love's Devotion: Breasts
Melting moments: a fat couple getting it on
Money: Li'l girl's bits
Notch: Lady bits
Nug: Term of endearment
Paps: Breasts
Pearly Shower: Ejaculation
Pinchcock: Prostitute
Piss-proud: A false erection
Posteriors: Buttocks
Prigging: Getting it on
Prodigious engine: Penis
Quail-pipe: a woman's tongue (QB gives you bonus points for using this one!)
Ripe fruits: Breasts
Root: Penis
Roundmouth: Anus
Ruby-tipped Globes: Breasts
Sable fur: Bush
Sapphist: Lesbian
Steed: Penis
Stiff Sinew: Penis
Sting of Pleasure: Orgasm
Storm of Heaves: Getting it on
Sweet Death: Orgasm
Swive: Getting it on
Tackle: Penis
Toffer: A Grade A whore
Tom: Butch
Truncheon: Penis
Tupping: Getting it on
Unrigged: Undressed
Venus's Curse: An STD
Virgin's Flower: Lady bits
Wapping: Getting it on
Warm Gush: Ejaculation
Weapon: Penis
Whirlygigs: Testicles
White Cliffs: Buttocks
White Staff: Penis
Whore-pipe: Penis
Wild Rapture: Bush
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